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CHILE: Home Truths About the Dictator and His Family?
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - "La Familia. Historia privada de los Pinochet" (The Family: Private History of the Pinochets), a book that delves into the personal life of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his immediate family, has had a mixed reception in this country and in Ecuador, where a man claiming to be his illegitimate son may soon identify himself.
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HONDURAS: Activists Decry Suspension of Fundamental Rights
By Thelma Mejía
TEGUCIGALPA - Local and international human rights organisations and left-wing legislators condemned the suspension of constitutional rights in Honduras during the night-time curfew, which tightened the state of siege in effect since President Manuel Zelaya was ousted Sunday.
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RIGHTS-SPAIN: ‘Universal Justice’ Threatened
By Tito Drago
MADRID - Spain, considered a pioneer in the area of universal justice and especially legal action in human rights cases, is about to take a step backwards in that regard. On Tuesday, activists and legal experts criticised a draft law that would limit the Spanish courts’ ability to investigate human rights abuses committed in other countries.
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CORRUPTION-PERU: Ex-Ministers' Testimony Could Sink Fujimori
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The Peruvian justice system has the confessions of three convicted former ministers in the government of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), to support corruption charges against him, prosecutor Avelino Guillén told IPS.
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RIGHTS-CHILE: Ex-Soldier Arrested for Víctor Jara Murder
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - A judge in Chile has charged a former soldier in the 1973 murder of internationally renowned Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara. Up to now, the only person prosecuted in the case was the commanding officer at the temporary prison camp where the songwriter was killed shortly after the Sept. 11, 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
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CHILE: Study Shows How Leading Paper Colluded with Dictatorship
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The coverage of human rights violations cases by the powerful conservative Chilean newspaper El Mercurio during the country’s 17-year dictatorship was the focus of a meticulous study by five young reporters.
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RIGHTS: Campaign Against School of the Americas Lobbies El Salvador
By Raúl Gutiérrez*
SAN SALVADOR - Representatives of School of the Americas Watch visited El Salvador to ask the incoming government of the leftwing FMLN, which will take office in June, to stop sending military officers to the U.S. army academy, which has long been accused of teaching torture techniques.
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Q&A: Fujimori Will Serve "At Least 18 Years"
Ángel Páez interviews JOSÉ ANTONIO PELÁEZ, Alberto Fujimori's prosecutor
LIMA - It is highly unlikely that the Peruvian Supreme Court will overturn or reduce the 25-year sentence handed down to former president Alberto Fujimori, because the verdict is well-supported, said chief prosecutor José Antonio Peláez.
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CHILE: Images of Exile
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Painful images of the exile suffered by thousands of Chileans during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet and of the expressions of solidarity from the countries that took them in are presented in a new book with a prologue by internationally renowned writer Ariel Dorfman.
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PERU: Rights Groups Applaud Fujimori Conviction
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - Human rights groups welcomed the conviction of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison Tuesday on charges of murder and kidnapping.
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RIGHTS-MEXICO: Verdict Strengthens Dirty War Impunity
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - For decades, prosecutors, historians, activists and the families of victims of the political violence of the late 1960s and the 1970s in Mexico have blamed former president Luis Echeverría for the 1968 massacre of student protesters in Tlatelolco square in the capital and the disappearance of hundreds of people in the country’s "dirty war" on leftists and other dissidents.
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Q&A: "Fujimori Gave the Order"
Ángel Páez interviews Peruvian prosecutor AVELINO GUILLÉN
LIMA - With a sentence set to be handed down shortly in the trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) for two notorious massacres of civilians – known as the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta killings – the prosecutor in the case, Avelino Guillén, said the defendant’s guilt has been amply proven.
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RIGHTS-PERU: The Comforts of Impunity
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - Retired military officers facing prosecution in Peru for cases of corruption or human rights violations allegedly committed during the 1980-2000 civil war are awaiting trial in the comfort of their homes.
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